Sheep Respiratory Conditions
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Scarsdale Vets
Derby
Pasteurella
Several types stress related clinical signs death?
Clinical signs pasteurella
Haemorrhage fluid in lungs
Disease outbreaks
Often May, June, July Often deaths initially Stress factors/climate
Prevention/Control
Vaccination antibiotics?
Other viral conditions
PI3 infection mycoplasma/atypical pneumonia slow viruses
PI3 infections
Under-lying cause of pasteurella?
Atypical pneumonia
Chronic - young sheep Can effect 40% lambs in flock chronic, mucopurulent nasal discharge reduces growth rates
Slow virus infections
Jaagsiekte Maedi-Visna
Maedi-Visna
Long incubation Solid lungs weigh 2 -3x normal blood sampling
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Caseous lympadenitis
30 -40 abscesses in lungs
contagious
Parasitic Bronchitis
Husk Muellarius
Oddities
tumours poisons